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modoxoraws HOTREPLYFHOM Alexander Tipoins Bill Leader Says the Ex-Mayor “Butted in’’ and Must Take Consequences. in a card to the public, good natured in rhe main, but rasping in portions. Representative Hooper Alexander, of DeKalb, prohibition leader in the house and chief advocate of the Tippins bill, answers today former Mayor Maddox's ~a r, | of Saturday, in which the Tippins bill was scored unmercifully as a busi ness and moral proposition. Mr. Alexander takes Mr. Maddox se vere!.' to task for preaching things he is alleged not to practice. The prohi bition leader .says the mayor- thinks it all right, apparently, for him to be long to a swell club which violates the i.iw. whe thile he objects to the poor man's club and the negro "blind tiger," which also and in the same way violate the same law. Mt. Alexander asks the former mayor number of leading questions, and openly dares him to make answer- to them specifically and categorically. Inferential!.'' and most interestingly, the DeKalb county representative calls upon the mayor to explain hi? alleged < < nnection with a tentative plot to make a "candidate for- something” of Mr Alexander, if possible, in the hope that hi- candidacy might work to the disadvantage of the Tippins bill in the senate by dividing the prohibition vole therein. it was openly stated in some quarters as far back as last Saturday that Mr. Alexander's candidacy for the govern orship might be urged by some, in the exjwctation that it would influence sev rral so-called "Joe Brown senators.” favorablr to Slaton, but also "Tippins bill “enators/' to incline against the bill rather than be classed pre-Alex ander or help put either Mr. Slaton or the governor "in a hole." It is this ru mor that Mr. Alexander, it is supposed, refers to. Former Mayor Maddox, shown Rep msentative Alexander’s card, seemingly was in no wise upset. He read it, and gave out a brief interview in reply. Mr. Alexander's card follows: Little Tin God” Is Rumbling. 'Then I read Bob Maddox's pon derous effusion wherein he couldn’t resist the temptation to take a shot at me. but was uncertain whether to call me a miserable "fanatic" or Ju-t a plain ordinary demagogrue ‘playing to the galleries." I won dered if the senators, to whom his lecture was principally addressed, realized who this was rumbling like some tin god on wheels. If they did, they "ill of course understand that when the rulers of this town bring Bob out to tell folks what to do. they are beginning to sit up and take notice, and that it's time for common folks to stand from un der 1 didn't know what trouble was corning out of this thing till the.' trotted Bob out. Whenever the battle is going against the bosses and pie eaters of Atlanta they call for Bob, and then the thunderous hoofbeats of his charger coming to their help, sound like the hollow echoes on the Winchester Pike "with Robert 30 miles away," and his worship pers call aloud in chorus of kilted exultation. "Dina ye hear the pib roch" The Campbells are com ing." • I wonder if I could modestly comment on a few of his state ments and ask him a few questions without committing treason against "the first citizen of Atlan ta." "the finest mayor Atlanta." the eloquent young banker from Georgia." the fellow whose com panions in boyhood struck out the R, F." from his name and insist ed on styling him "G. A.” Bob says that all the time that, he was mayor there wasn't a sa lon in Atlanta where you could but a drink of whisky, and then he bethinks himself and adds that ' ourtland Winn is just as good as he ever was. and that you can’t get one now. I wonder if Bob really believes that. 1 have observed that the liquor people boast mightily al di ordinary times about how they 'lefy the laws of Georgia, but that 'hen the representatives of the people begin to call them to ac i ount they sing a very different tune. Maybe he hides the bold and no torlous falsity of the statement be hind some mental reservation in the way of a limited meaning to the word "saloon." What do you ">an by a "saloon." Robert? What 'io you call that place in your club and in the eight or ten other clubs teat call themselves "legitimate.” 'here they sell whisky by the drink? Is that a saloon? If not, >s there any legal or moral differ ence in selling liquor in a saloon ’o a nigger and selling it in that place to a judge of the supreme court or of the court of appeals? 'gain. is there any difference between the selling of liquo in violation of law in a "legitimate" club, as vou call them, and in what -ou call an ■■illegitimate" club.’ fake that barroom down on Ala ' "ma street that hangs out a sign ■ailing itself a 11 ■ Hive," like 'hf olr] tavern signs of the "Blue I-ion" or the "Es-cx Boat." ’he r aco " here anybody can go and u'.ja drink of liquoi ’hat want’ /•’. that a saloon If ’’ is tie’ difference does it make to a I •Are You in Love? • : Here Are 4 Tests • • CHICAGO. July 15. — Hereafter • • the young people who attend the • • Woodlawn Park Methodist church • • will know when they are in love • • with each other. Rev. W. B. Nor- • • ton. pastor, told them in a sermon • • about love and how to find out • • when you've caught it and ended • • by laying down four "tests." Here • • are the tests: • • First. You care not for wealth. • • position, things material. You • • worship only the person. * • Second. You are intensely inter- • • ested even in the tiny things con- • • cerning the beloved. • • Third. You find Joy in service, • • no matter how arduous. • • Fourth. You feel pain at Sep- • • aration. • • Incidentally. Rev Mr. Norton • • explained, if you are really in love • • you will not cate for "auto rides. • • amusement parks, social position • • or candy. You will think only of • • "him." • • « ••••••••••••••••••••••••a* law-abiding people whether th? criminals who defy the sovereign authority’ of their state call them selves by one name or the other? Bob. you don't dare answer pub licly these questions: 1. Is it lawful or unlawful for the Capital City’ club or the Uni versity club to sell whisky? 2. If it is lawful for these clubs to sell, is it lawful or unlawful for the Bees, and the Beavers, and the Owls and the Jackasses and the other animals? _ ,1. Is there one law for your club and another for the common crim inals? and. if not. why did the grand Jury the other day’ indict one set and let the other set go free? Was any secret advice given to ’he jury that didn't harmonize with what they were publicly charged ? I don't want to annoy you. Bob. by any inordinate curiosity but when you start out in public dis cussion with the attitude of some Jove shaking his ambrosial locks, you must be prepared to give- us your whole stock of wisdom. You don't have to butt into this discus sion if you don’t want to. but if you do. you must tell it all-. And when you start, you can pitch your tone towards your adversaries in decent and courteous fashion, or you can call them demagogues and fanatics, but the echo that these words arouse starts equally as harsh as they are. and gets worse as it goes; and when you make broad denials of the existence of crime, you and your friends must expect specific inquiries on the cross examination, and the inqui ries may grow very embarrassing. “What’s a Club, And What's a Tiger?” Bob. you say that your "officers and courts have been diligent in prosecuting the blind tigers." etc. Just what do you mean by a blind tiger? I gather that when a nig ger sells a drink of com liquor in an alley he is a blind tiger, and that you think it's the business of the courts to prosecute him all right. But if the Atlanta Brewing & Ice Company’ manufactures beer, and Oppenheim sells it in his Ala bama street barroom, or if your club sells whisky by’ the drink in its big barroom, why are they’ not blind tigers, too. and why isn’t it the duty of the courts to be "dili gent" about prosecuting them, just as you say they are "diligent" to prosecute the poor devil of a blind tiger? 1 don't want to worry you. Bob. but you know you started this dish ing out of knowledge and I am fairly thirsting for more of your information. Why the State Is Short of Cash. Then again. Bob. you say that the passage of this law is going to deplete our revenues; and that's true, but do you think the state ought to sell its honor and compro mise its sovereignty for the dirty dollars of a dive keeper, or because you and the balance of its privi leged classes want to disregard law and defy authority? It will deplete revenues all right, but never again. 1 hope, will a Georgia legislature In dulge in a violous saturnalia of ex travagance in order to tie rhe hands of the people against cur tailing the privileges of criminals who stand ready to dole out a few grudging dollars from their store of blood money as a quid pro quo for a license to commit crime. Our revenues are scant enough, as you say; God knows. But. Bob. did you know that there is a dawn ing recognition in the minds of men that what really impoverishes both the state and her people is the lav ish granting out of privileged fran chises to favored men to tax the people under the guise of tolls, and the resulting ungodly watering of stocks like that $57,000,000 thing that three purblind railroad com missioners allowed to your power company? This thing of depleting revenues is a big question, Bob. and mighty far-reaching. I don't particularly care to go Into It if you don’t; but if finance is on your mind, I am thirsting for knowledge on that subject also, and when 1 thirst for knowledge I fairly pant for It. Conservative Laws And “Drastic” Ones. Bob. there's so much of this thing that I am afraid 111 weary you, but there's one subject you mentior that I just hone to understand. I observe that you are positively en about sane and conservative Uw," and utterly THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. JULY 15. 1912. J] Daughters of Dixie in Business Life TELLING MUCH IN A FEW WORDS KEY TO SUCCESS' OF WOMAN AD WRITER Mrs. Minnie Randolph. Depart ment Store's Publicity Chief. Advises Ambitious. Girls. Take it from M’'s. Minnie Randolph— who know s--a woman of many words can probably bake a cherry pie or aril ribbons or be a huge success at a bridge table, but she can't be an ad writer. Mrs. Randolph, who has charge of the J. M. High advertising, knows, because she has been on the job twelve years. “I wouldn’t discourage anybody ." said Mrs. Randolph, "and I refuse to say for publication that women talk mote than men. 1 will say howeuer. that the woman who would write to interest a fond mother who wishes to invest a' few dollars in marquisette for her daughter had better get it out quickly." Mrs. Randolph began her career at Davison-Paxon-Stokes’ in the map or der department and in that way became acquainted with the many sides of the business of running a department store. Began Writing For Catalogue. "I staried by writing for a catalogue," she said. "A gentleman asked me one day if I could write advertising, and I told him that I had never tried. He asked me to try. I did. It was fairly intelligent and I have been writing ever since. I. of course, had the advantage of a good education. 1 was with M. Rich for many years, and then came to my present employers. “It’s rather hard for me to tell you what It takes to make a good advertis ing writer, and I would hardly know how to go about giving advice to a young woman who would adopt the profession. To begin with, I don't be lieve a young woman—or. at least, one young In experience—would be suc cessful. because she would need knowl edge of the ways of life. But T will say this: “It is an attractive profession for women. It is dignified: it gives privacy and it is practically free from tempta tions, because one is thrown not with the public. I will say here, parenthet ically. however, that one shouldn’t be come a recluse or her perspective will, be lost and her scope narrowed. It Is a business that doesn’t become mo notonous. because it changes with each day and its requirements resuft in giv ing one a pretty good idea of human values. , Education First Requirement. "As for qualifications—some amount lof education is absolutely necessary. I and the more you know the better ad- I verrisement writer you will,be. A wotn ' an-must be able to look at things from another's viewpoint, or after a while she will have a very limited clientele. A woman must be able to choose a few words that will express a large mean ing. She absolutely must not be tedi ous. a bore. "She must he a woman. The only quality which she must possess, which is generally’ considered characteristic of the good business man. is the one I have named above —ability to be brief The male advertising writers who are most successful are those who best un derstand women and their wants. Therefore, a woman who would write ads should cling to her native talents, because women are the most consistent advertisement readers. She should go out and mix with people; go to card parties, keep up with the little topics of the day. raise chickens, fall In Jove from all of these she will obtain Ideas that will serve her from time to time. "I often receive suggestions quite ac cidentally which prove of much value to the firm. I hear women talking of some particular style and 1 straightway tell the office folk about it. From just such chance incidents I often learn enough to aid my firm in preparing for a heavy demand. Field Offers Opportunities. "There are, of course, a number of technical things a woman ad writer must learn, such as styles of type, dia gram drawing and so on. But if she have a good intelligence, a fair educa tion. a capacity for hard work, an un derstanding of people, especially her disapprove of the fanaticism of the proposed "drastic" measure. V\ ell, Bob, it amuses me about you liquor people. Every proposition we fa natics have ever made you assured us was "drastic" when we made it, and when we took file next step the old one had always quit being "drastic” and was "sane and con servative.” Don't you remember, Bolt, how your liquor crowd warned us tn 1907 that wt were "drastic’ and were going to bankrupt every body and destroy all the property vafltes in Atlanta? Bob. property values in Atlanta have doubled since that time, and now you and your money-loving crowd say that the law is “sane and conservative." If you sane and conservative guys didn't have somebdoy to put the "prop" of a little fanaticism under your property, you'd div of the dry rot. And say. Bob. when it cropped out the other day that three police men were fired for belonging to a locker club, "as that because it disqualified them as policemen? If it did, why ’lid it? Up in Rome the other day some people tried to get an Injunction against a blind tiger ami the solicitor said he couldn't ai t because he was a member of it himself and disqualified for inter est. and when they asked the .fudge to appoint n solicitor pro tent be said ’itat he "us disqualified, too. Ivo au e his -on "a- a member 'nd so the people haven't got any court \\ ■ / ■'.<j|j J fl ■I FWWflw? - ■■- ■. tm WtlfZr ‘ x M T v „ . * v ' :■ ■ \ \ \ * * —v* x \T ''r” \\ \ \ % x \ y\\ \ ) Mrs. Minnie Randolph, now in charge of the advertising of M. High ('o.. who has been in the publicity field twelve years. • • : Requisites a Woman • : Must Possess To Be • • Successful Ad Writer • • • • Mrs. Randolph says; • • She hiust know people—espe- • • cially women • • She must try very hard and • • learn to say big things in a few • • words. • • She must know the details of • • the business she represents. • • She must he observant. ® • She must know as much about • • everything as she possibly can. • • Everything helps. • • She need never bo unwomanly. • • • ••••••••••••••••••••••••a* own sex. and the ability to say a big thought in a feu words, she can learn all else easily. , "The advertising field offers good op. portunities for women. I believe. Cer tainly it is as attractive an occupation as I know.” Mrs. Randolph is a widow and a mother. She lives at 36 Peachtree cir cle. up there to appeal to. Isn't that anarchy? Anarchy means "no gov ernment." Suppose those people wanted to apply to the supreme court for a writ of erroi -well. I reckon I'd better not say anything more about that. They might say I was at ta king th'- courts. But suppose We had a governor who was him self I think I'd better not say any more, Bob; I'm getting on danger ous ground. I" don't want to make anybody mad. was just so tickled over the ponderous absurdities of your pron uneia men to that I couldn't help poking a liltle fun at ' ou. But don't you get mud, Bob. for I think just as much of your divine intelli gence and superhuiflan importance as you do, anti that's flattering some. I think you ought to be sat isfied, for nobody could state his admiration in molt- superlative terms than I it. The senators to whom you have handed out a few choice morsels of your wistlorn will now salaam. As to Alexander Playing Cat’s Paw. By the way. Bob. before I quit, what was,that scheme vou out lined in your conference the other day about dividing the prohibition fori es in the senate by putting me u p a. 4 candidate for something Ito" " i ’ha’ ' I know it "a- <' • tta mart and 'tperfine. because you got it up; but, you know, I am so thick-headed 1 can't quite un derstand it, I wish you would ex plain it. because I want to under stand which you were setting down as a fool —me or the senators? Or was It both? And, Boh. when you complain In one breath that the people are not allowed "an opportunity to vote upon the measure” and in the very next breath, declare that "to have the state torn into tatters political ly, friends and relatives divided on its question, and the ultimate result disastrous, no matter which side may win, is an unpleasant picture to contemplate,” doesn't the com mon thought of common men begin to percolate even into your supernal wisdom that your attitude is Just a little inconsistent’? Finally, if you want to pursue the subject, leave out personal in sinuation next time, and i'll reply in n different vein. Maddox Declines To Enter Debate Mr. Maddox, when shown Mr. Alex ander's reply, after briefly glancing over it, stated: "I have no desire to get into any newspaper controversy over the pend ing legislation on the Tippins bill. As i citizen of Georgia 1 felt interested in it. and 1 did not hesitate to express my views. I did not mention Mr, Alex ander's name not refer to any mem ber of the house or senate in the state ment I gave to Tlie Georgia. The only part my statement which seem- to have stuck in Hooper's craw was when I stated that I hoped Ibis important sub ject would lie 'considered calmly, with out fanaticism, political ambition or prejudice ' I believe there are a large number of members of both the house and senate who can and do discuss this subject in that manner, but. from Hooper's card, he evidently is not one of them." At least five members of the senate < ommittec on temperance will vigor ously oppose the Tippins-Alexander bill at the committee's session this after noon. Senator Graham of the Seventh dis trict, supported by Senator Dickerson, of tip- Fifth, will Introduce a referen dum amendment, hoping for favorable committee action. However. Indica tions ar*’ that the Tippins bill will go t* the senate in exactly the shape it passed the, house with a favorable committee report Amendments to it will be offered on the floor of the,sen ate. ESCAPED CONVICT CAUGHT. SAVANNAH GA. July 15 aleorgi Britton. on° of the five convicts who escaped from the gang working on the White Bluff road Thursday, when one of their nuntbet wa killed and thei" i-u.'C'l ”unn r d by i bo!' of hghlAiinij SOLICITOR FEES STff 111 FORCE Bill to Put Them on Salaries Fails to Get Necessary Two thirds Vote in House. Th? house declined, by a vote of 119 to 43, today to pass the bill b> Mr. Allen and Mr Hu 11 bright providing for tho abo lition of solicitors general in Georgia and the substitution therefor of county prose cuting attorneys in the several counties of the state, un a salary basis. The vote in favor of the bill was four less than the necessary two-thirds re quired for constitutional amendments Debate on this bill was commenced in the house Friday and was participated in by a dozen or more leading members. It was evident from the first that the vote on the bill would be close, and tha/t there was wide and serious differences of opinion as to the precise terms upon which solicitors should be removed from a fee and put upon a salary basis. In general, and in its broadest applica tion. the house is a practical unit in favor of a salary basis for solicitors. The defeated bill provided for a salary of not more than $5,000 to any one county attorney, and that the salary might be. made a« much less as the county au thorities determined It required that all county' prosecuting attorneys should bring Into the county treasury in fines and forfeitures not less than the salary awarded them, or lose such portion as they failed to bring in. The bill provided that prosecuting at torneys should be elected by the people <»f their respective counties An effort was made, under a motion to reconsider, to save the bill from death, just before the vote was announced, but it failed. • Mr. White, of Screven, offered a bill in the house today providing for a codifi cation of the. educational laws of Georgia. With this joint legislative committee of three the attorney general and superin tendent of education will serve. Discussing his bill. Mr. White said: “Professor Brittain has compiled a. prac tical codification of the law. and all we need now Is official anti intelligent In dorsement of the same. If it Is indorsed and the next legislature adopts it. Geor gia will have a comprehensive and in telligent codification of our educational laws.” Mr. Christopher, of Hall, introduced a bill today to raise the pensions of in digent blind pensioners from S6O to SIOO per annum. Mr. Payton, of Worth, introduced a bill fixing the fee of justices of the peace in Georgia at $2.50 for Issuing criminal, search, peace or possessory warrants, unless the party taking the same makes affidavit that he is unable to pay same. Mr Payton. of Worth, also introduced a bill this morning aimed at insurance combined, both life and fire, made for the purpose of advancing rates, WOMAN SELLS LAND NEEDED IN WIDENING OF EAST POINT ROAD Mrs R M. McWhirter, who held up the county work on the East Point roaxl for months, today withdrew her objection to the widening of the thoroughfare She signed a deed to a 22-foot strip of land necessary to the widening of the road late Saturday. Several months ago the county commissioners authorized ft and the work was begun However, when the crew reached Mrs McWhirter's land, near East Point, she refused to allow them to include any of her property In the road Plans for purchase of the prop erty were made by county officials, but Mrs. McWhirter steadfastly refused all offers made her. Then citizens of East Point sought a condemnation order from the court, but failed to get it Tull C Waters, county commissioner, finally, through a tempting offer of $2,750 for the little strip of land, obtained Mrs. McWhirter’s signature to the deed late Saturday. Today workmen are completing the widening of the road and probably will finish the work this week. “WEARY WILLIES’’ GAME WONTHEM ALL FREEDOM WJDKESBARREJ, PA . July 15. Thirty tramps rounded up in the bor ough of Plymouth wore trotted out to the baseball field by Burgess W. D. Morris and divided evenly, fifteen play ers to a side, and told by his honor that the " Inning aggregation was to be well fed and ordered from town. « hlle the losers were to remain prisoners for two days putting in their time at work on the streets pounding stone. The burgess < ailed one set the "Never Works" and the other aggregation "Toil Fearers." He officiated as umpire. At the end of the fifth inning, tramps and burgess were tired of the game and Morris declared the "Never Works” victors by a score of 43 to 38. When the crowd got back to the lockup he fed them as he promised and declared that the game had been so hotly con tested that he believed one side was as much entitled to a victory a.s an other. released everv one of the thirty with the understanding that they leave town fen minutes after their meal was finished and not show up again for at. least another year. ROOSEVELT PROVES BOON FOR SLICK PICKPOCKETS NEW YORK. Julj 15. -Colonel Roosevelt received an unexpected trih. ute from "Kid" Shaffer, a young pick pocket, who was taken Into custody by detectives as a fugitive from Elmira reformatory. “Teddy tea great one for drawing the crowds.” said the "Kid." "Stick with him rind you'll always have plenty. All the pickpockets I have ever met read the newspapers and keep track of Colo, nel Roosevelt.” S. A. WARDLAW SEEKING RE-ELECTION TO COUNCIL S A VV’ardlaw announced tjubn that he would be a candidate for reelection to council from the Firsi ward I II Har well. ” • said, will be ;« candidate tn u» - • eed x .1. Johnson as alderman from the TWO MIKERS CLASH ONFLOOR George Brown Resents Vinson’s Action on Health Board Res olution and “Calls Him.” A sharp atjri sensational clash be tween Representative V'in=on. of Bald win. and Representative Brown, of Fulton, occurred on the floor of the house this morning, but not as a part of the recorded day's proceedings, aft er Mr. Vinson, in the absence of Dr. Brown, had succeeded in having a res olution fathered by Dr Brown, report ed favorably to the house, recommitted to the committee on hygiene and sani tation for a rehearing. Dr. Brown's resolution provides for a joint committee to investigate the stale board of health, and has been reported tn both the house and the senate.. It seeks to air some of the inside doings of that committee, some of which have, been aired before, it is said, and some of which have not. Soon after the house met today Mr. Vinson asked that, the resolution be recommitted. There was no objection, and the bill was sent back to the com mittee. In a few minutes Dr. Brown came in, and, in ignorance of what had hap pened, asked that his resolution b«| called up for consideration The speaker informed him that his bill had been sent back to the commit tee for a rehearing. Calls Down Mr. Vinson. Dr. Brown was visibly astonished, but said nothing more on the floor. He walked down tn the reading clerk and inquired as to the facts of the sit uation. When Dr. Rrown had satisfied him self as to what had happened and how, he went to Mr. Vinson and said: "1 consider such methods as you adopted In blocking my resolution this morning as questionable. I shall keep my eyes on you 1n the future." Mr. Vinson flushed, and said ha guessed that would be satisfactory' to him, and that he was not answerable to Dr. Brown for his conduct. Speaking of the matter later, Mr. Vinson said: “I wanted this resolution recommitted because I wanted to be heard by the committee on the'merlts of the. proposed investigation. I think there Ir no real merit in it. This boa-d has been investigated once, and noth ing wrtfng was found. Why should it be investigated again? There Is more spleen and malice in the matter than anything else. I do want to kill the resolution because 1 think it should be killed." Dr. Brown, discussing the Incident, said: "I have known for some time that somebody was seeking diligently to block nty resolution providing for an investigation into the doings of the state heard of health I found out to day who it was, and T must say I was astonished at the methods he used. The plea that Mr. Vinson wants to be heard by the committee comes mighty late. Why hasn't he been heard here tofore? He has had abundant oppor tunity. The plea that the department has been investigated before is silly. It Investigated itself, antj found itself all right I want a real investigation held and the committee agrees that, it should be Investigated. What Mr. Vinson is trying to do is to block an investiga tion. 'The secretary of the health board has influential relatives in Baldwin county and the gentleman from Bald win seems determined that the board shall not be investigated. If he Is so sure that everything Is all right, why does he undertake to head off an In vestigation ?” Live Session Expected. A more than ordinarily sensational session of the committee on hygiene and sanitation is expected to follow today’s clash between Vinson and Brown. Tlie proposal to investigate rhe stat hoard of health by a legislative joint committee evidently will be bitterly fought. This fight Is, in some of its aspects, a continuation of an old controversy between Dr. Willis Westmoreland, of Atlanta, a former member of the board and its chairman, and Dr. H. F. Harris, the present secretary. Several months ago Dr. Westmore land. resigning the chairmanship of the board, filed charges of extravagance and maladministration against Secre tary Harris. These charges the board absolved itself and its secretary of. but there has never been a legislative in vestigation. Il is this legislative investigation that Dr. Brown is seeking to bring about. THOMASTON PROVIDES FOR FIRE PROTECTION TH'IMASTON. GA. July 15.—The city council has purchased two reels and 1.5011 feet of hose for Are fight ing purposes, and is negotiating for a fln truck, with chemical engine, lad ders and extra hose. When this is done the city will «e made a third class town, according to the South eastern Underwriters association’s re quirements. and insurance reductions "ill be in order. A'"eady the 75,000- gallon 130-foot water tank is com pleted and two electric and two steam pump- installed- at the waterworks plant to be completed August 15. SUFFRAGETTE ASSAILANT OF PREMIER TO PRISON I.ONIMiN. Julx 15. Charles Gray, the voting suffragette sympathizer, who on Thursday assaulted chancellor Da \id Uloyd-George as the cabinet was entering Kensington theater to speak «- sentenced to two months at hard 3